The Amazon Burns Down – Fires threaten Earth’s Largest Rainforest
The Amazon rainforest is burning up. Fires have been raging at an unprecedented rate, over 70,000 fires affecting 4.6 million acres were recorded in the first six months of 2019. That's a 62% increase over last year according to Brazil's
The Trillion Dollar company and the 99%: where are they now?
Editors note: Article update 08.10.2018 ( see bottom of the article for more information) Recently the online retailer Amazon surpassed a trillion dollar valuation on the stock market just one month after tech giant Apple Inc. achieved the same milestone, making
TRUMP WATCH: A SWIPE AT AMAZON, BUT WHY?
Everybody is getting worked up over Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, but Trump has a grudge against another tech giant: Amazon. On March 29, he lashed out: I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. Unlike others, they pay
TRUMP WATCH: DEFYING CHINA ON TRADE
In a single tweet on 5 April, Trump gave a double whammy: against China, reminding everyone that he’s fighting China on trade, and against Amazon’s "chief lobbyist”, the hated "Fake News Washington Post": The Fake News Washington Post, Amazon’s “chief lobbyist,”
Trump Watch: Is the White House in Tip Top Shape?
On 2 April, Trump surpassed himself in a little noted tweet about his hosting the Annual White House Easter Egg Roll. In the welcome speech he gave on the Truman balcony, addressing some 21,000 guests to the beloved event, a hallowed
Peat Swamps: The Forgotten Fix for Climate Change
“Drain the swamp!” It was Donald Trump’s campaign metaphor for purging everything bad in Washington DC. But he got his metaphor all wrong. Swamps are good. And, while Trump may not believe much in climate change, the UN climate conference
Don’t Be Evil: the Other Side of the Tech Industry
How to Address the Tech World's Moral Blindness Who leads the tech world and what is their impact on the economy? Put together two remarkable statistics: Of the ten richest men in America, only three are not tech billionaires: Warren Buffett
The Surge of the New Sport Fans: A Key For the Future
Digitization is now part of our everyday life. It’s everywhere and it’s impacting every individual in numerous ways. With the rise of new technologies and the supremacy of social networks, no industry and no customer is left outside of the
Colombia Week: Chronicle of a Colombian Movie
When The Embrace of the Serpent was nominated for an Oscar many of us, Colombians, were proud before even watching the movie. We felt represented. Words of encouragement and admiration were directed from all angles at director Ciro Guerra for
Oil spills: A Double-Standard World
This is the emblematic story of two oil spills: one in the developed world, the other in the Third World, the BP case in the Golf of Mexico vs. Chevron-Texaco in the Amazon. In the photo: Aerial view of the amazon The
To Publish and Perish
Amazon and its 3.4 Million E-Books: the End of Culture? For a long while now, people have debated how many e-books Amazon carried it in its Kindle Store, because Amazon has never divulged the data. Some daringly ventured the figure of